Re: Embedding schema with binary encoding

2013-01-09 Thread Pratyush Chandra
Thanks Scott. Even I realized, default is binary encoding and not json. On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Scott Carey scottca...@apache.org wrote: In an Avro file, it always writes the schema in JSON form in the header. There may be an old JIRA ticket considering the possibility of writing

Re: Embedding schema with binary encoding

2013-01-08 Thread Scott Carey
Calling toJson() on a Schema will print it in json fom. However you most likely do not want to invent your own file format for Avro data. DataFileWriter which will manage the schema for you, along with compression, metadata, and the ability to seek to the middle of the file.Additionally it

Re: Embedding schema with binary encoding

2013-01-08 Thread Pratyush Chandra
Hi Scott, I am able to find example for json encoding with DataFileWriter which embedds schema, but unable to find DataFileWriter example for binary encoding with schema. Thanks Pratyush On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Scott Carey scottca...@apache.org wrote: Calling toJson() on a Schema will